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First published in 1992, Writing and Censorship in Britain explores
the issue of censorship, from a range of cultural and literary
perspectives, from the Tudor period to the 1990s. Written by some
of the leading experts in the field, this collection charts the
struggles for artistic expression, reveals how censorship is
appropriated as a legitimate tactic in the defence of oppressed and
marginalised groups, and analyses the struggles writers have
employed in the face of its complex dynamics. Here variously
defined, defended and deplored, censorship emerges as both an
unstable and a potent concept. Through it we define ourselves: as
readers, as writers and as citizens. This book will be of interest
to students of literature, history and law.
This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues
that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is
this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so
graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current
Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical
essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his
own practice as a writer.
This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues
that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is
this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so
graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current
Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical
essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his
own practice as a writer.
Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have
contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from
scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of
responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present
and include dissenting responses from communities such as native
American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers
such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a
framework for discussions on topics such as colonial notions of
America as the promised land, the discourses of nationhood in the
republic, the sense of nationhood in American historiography, and
the formation of the American Canon. Draws upon extracts from the
American Bills of Rights and the Constitution as examples of
different types of writing.
Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have
contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from
scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of
responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present
and include dissenting responses from communities such as native
American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers
such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a
framework for discussions on topics such as colonial notions of
America as the promised land, the discourses of nationhood in the
republic, the sense of nationhood in American historiography, and
the formation of the American Canon. Draws upon extracts from the
American Bills of Rights and the Constitution as examples of
different types of writing.
This is a collection of essays by international scholars which
focuses on Irish writing in English from the 18th century to the
present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the
subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and
literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift,
Steele, Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett and Heaney are set
alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as
radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution,
rhetorical constructions of the Great Famine, and the contribution
of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.
This is a collection of essays by international scholars which
focuses on Irish writing in English from the 18th century to the
present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the
subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and
literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift,
Steele, Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett and Heaney are set
alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as
radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution,
rhetorical constructions of the Great Famine, and the contribution
of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.
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